Brief Update
Aug. 5th, 2004 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dexfarkinNo, I am not dead. Not for any lack of trying, I assure you. I will be making many e-mails and posts and things of the conly nature in a day or two, while I detox and slowly wait for all these people to get the fuck out of my beautiful apartment. However, three interesting things that came out of the con that have nothing to do with it.
1. A new year in Europe. Doqz and I are actually considering a four or five day jaunt to a European city over the Christmas break. We may have convinced Alestar to join us as this is a very good idea. Current thinking is Venice, but I need to spend a solid couple of days on the net looking at all the different options before we decide anything.
2. More people are looking at the Toronto environs for future schooling and employment. I can always use more ficcers in the region, and it's very cool to have them around. One of them has the cutest dimples...
3. X-Journal. Long purging discussion that confirmed what I had thought; my ignominious removal was based on a couple of malicious mods no longer with the game. A brief notice clearing my name and explaining what really happened was offered by some of the current group of mods, and an offer to return was extended. While I can't accept the offer to return (for a large number of reasons that have more to do with me than the game), I did accept their request to puppet the odd villain and coordinate a few plots to help out. Honestly, I think that might be the best, especially considering time pressures and the like. Besides, I do play a damn nasty villain and that's something of a rarity. So, I am looking forward to that if it works out. There are a few people that I've missed.
In a totally unrelated and non-con element, I discovered Martha Wells has a livejournal. If you don't know who Martha Wells is, you're the poorer for it, since she's one of the most original talents working in fantasy today. I first read her second book, City of Bones and was very impressed, but The Death of the Necromancer is, in my opinion, the best fantasy novel to come out in the last ten years. Tightly and engagingly written, beautifully rich and original, it sets a steampunk-esque world and a grisly mystery in the hands of a Doyle style mystery. Fantastic inventive stuff, and should be on everyone's reading list. I hear her newest book is on the way out, so I'll have to look for updates.
And I'm off to make up on the several days of sleep that I'm currently behind.
1. A new year in Europe. Doqz and I are actually considering a four or five day jaunt to a European city over the Christmas break. We may have convinced Alestar to join us as this is a very good idea. Current thinking is Venice, but I need to spend a solid couple of days on the net looking at all the different options before we decide anything.
2. More people are looking at the Toronto environs for future schooling and employment. I can always use more ficcers in the region, and it's very cool to have them around. One of them has the cutest dimples...
3. X-Journal. Long purging discussion that confirmed what I had thought; my ignominious removal was based on a couple of malicious mods no longer with the game. A brief notice clearing my name and explaining what really happened was offered by some of the current group of mods, and an offer to return was extended. While I can't accept the offer to return (for a large number of reasons that have more to do with me than the game), I did accept their request to puppet the odd villain and coordinate a few plots to help out. Honestly, I think that might be the best, especially considering time pressures and the like. Besides, I do play a damn nasty villain and that's something of a rarity. So, I am looking forward to that if it works out. There are a few people that I've missed.
In a totally unrelated and non-con element, I discovered Martha Wells has a livejournal. If you don't know who Martha Wells is, you're the poorer for it, since she's one of the most original talents working in fantasy today. I first read her second book, City of Bones and was very impressed, but The Death of the Necromancer is, in my opinion, the best fantasy novel to come out in the last ten years. Tightly and engagingly written, beautifully rich and original, it sets a steampunk-esque world and a grisly mystery in the hands of a Doyle style mystery. Fantastic inventive stuff, and should be on everyone's reading list. I hear her newest book is on the way out, so I'll have to look for updates.
And I'm off to make up on the several days of sleep that I'm currently behind.
